Luke 24 and John 1 are two awesome chapters in God’s word that provide incredible insight INTO God’s word. Consider what Jesus tells two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” (Luke 24:25-26). Then “beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself” (24:27).
Then in John’s gospel at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, “Philip found Nathanael and said to him, ‘We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph’” (John 1:45).
We are working our way through a portion of the Writings as we study the Psalms, and we have been introduced to the Book of Moses (the Pentateuch, 1st five books of the Bible) through our study of Genesis (and Exodus coming soon). We have even looked at the Prophets in our class as we studied Isaiah. All of these, we have discovered, are pointing to the Christ, Messiah who is coming to redeem Israel. When Jesus opened the Scriptures to his disciples he showed them how each of these three sections of the Old Testament (Law, Prophets and Writings) pointed to Him.
Don’t regard the Old Testament as an obsolete book for ancient Israel. On the contrary, the Old Testament is a living book for us today and carries with it the same message of the New Testament, that salvation comes through Messiah alone who will reign forever.
